Untitled (Light Encasement)

© Doug Wheeler
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Untitled (Light Encasement)

United States, 1968
Sculpture
Adapted neon and sheet acrylic
96 x 96 in. (243.84 x 243.84 cm); installation: 20 x 20 ft. (609.6 x 609.6 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Modern and Contemporary Art Council in honor of the museum's 40th anniversary (M.2005.7)
Contemporary Art
Not currently on public view

Label

In his Light Encasements, including Untitled, Doug Wheeler created paintings that cannot be distinguished from their environments....
In his Light Encasements, including Untitled, Doug Wheeler created paintings that cannot be distinguished from their environments. Here, a shallow eight-by-eight-foot acrylic box—spray-painted inside with lacquer and illuminated from within by neon tubes edging the borders—marks the extent of the “painting.” The form itself seems to hover, while the diffused light it emits imbues the entire wall and surrounding space with a soft luminosity.

Exhibition label: Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021, Carol S. Eliel.
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Bibliography

  • Eliel, Carol, editor. Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2021.
  • Zelevansky, Lynn, V. L. Hillings, M. Peternák, B. LaBelle, P. Frank, I. Katzenstein, A. Le Blanc.  Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-70s.  Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
  • Eliel, Carol, editor. Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2021.
  • Zelevansky, Lynn, V. L. Hillings, M. Peternák, B. LaBelle, P. Frank, I. Katzenstein, A. Le Blanc.  Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-70s.  Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
  • Sorkin, Jenni. Art in California. London; New York: Thames & Hudson, 2021.
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